Regardless of what the actual results say, today was a SUCCESS! I was amazed at all Antalya has learned in the last six months. She was even able to demonstrate several tasks that we haven't been working on - such as sorting spoons and blocks into different containers, and putting a penny into a piggy bank at several different angles. These may seem like simple, insignificant things to many of you, but once you have a child that is developmentally delayed you learn to celebrate every success and not take any new skill for granted. Way to go Antalya!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Test Time
Every six months Antalya has her Early Intervention evaluation. This involves a visit with one of her therapists who proceeds to "test" her skills in several areas (gross motor, fine motor, cognitive, social, language, self-help, etc). With her recent birthday it was time once again to test her skills in order to help us set new goals.
Regardless of what the actual results say, today was a SUCCESS! I was amazed at all Antalya has learned in the last six months. She was even able to demonstrate several tasks that we haven't been working on - such as sorting spoons and blocks into different containers, and putting a penny into a piggy bank at several different angles. These may seem like simple, insignificant things to many of you, but once you have a child that is developmentally delayed you learn to celebrate every success and not take any new skill for granted. Way to go Antalya!
Regardless of what the actual results say, today was a SUCCESS! I was amazed at all Antalya has learned in the last six months. She was even able to demonstrate several tasks that we haven't been working on - such as sorting spoons and blocks into different containers, and putting a penny into a piggy bank at several different angles. These may seem like simple, insignificant things to many of you, but once you have a child that is developmentally delayed you learn to celebrate every success and not take any new skill for granted. Way to go Antalya!
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Hooray for Antalya!! I think she's amazing . . .and part of the amazing part is that you got her to sit still long enough to sort spoons and etc. She's a beautiful, smart, busy, happy little girl!!!
Way to go Antalya! You are doing so well!
Wow, I can't believe she is 2!
My friend just found out today that most likely the little girl she is having in March has down syndrome. She is really scared. I hope it is okay that I gave her your blog address because I think your blog is amazing and must be an inspiration to a lot of people...including me!
I am 18 weeks pregnant with our second Child and we were told today that she may have Downs ( she has several indicators of it ) I am scared and I would love to talk to you. If you have a moment, please email me.
Kami Milliron
kamillemilliron@gmail.com
Glad to hear she had such a great evaluation!
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